ASL poetry day 3

ASL poetry day 3

Open Ended

Do you have a favorite poet or poem?

What/ who is it and why is it your favorite?

** kids nursery rhymes count too**

English Symmetrical technique

• A rhyme repeating patterns to bring out rhythm or musicality in poems. It is a repetition of similar sounds occurring in lines in a poem which gives the poem a symmetric quality

ASL Symmetrical technique

• Symmetry signing: two shapes looking the same way from either side

• Two ways

  Signing

  one sign on both hands at the same time. Signing

  two one handed signs at the same time.

• Examples #1: bird tweeting  #2 Yes vs No

English: Rhyme

• When sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of words or lines of poetry are the same, it creates rhyme. 

• Break down the unit of sound into smaller pieces

• Examples of Rhymes:

  -      The end sounds of words are similar:

  •      DOVE and LOVE, HORN and CORN

• -      The beginning of words sound the same

  •      Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly ( alliteration)

ASL RHYME

• break down of a sign into handshape, movement, palm orientation, and nonmanual signals offers the ASL poet many opportunities to rhyme in ASL. 

• Parts of signs that form a pattern create an ASL rhyme.

• In ASL, two or more words (signs) are repeated. The parts may be the same handshape, movement, and/or location, or combined, but handshape is the most commonly used rhyme

• Examples of ASL Rhyme:

  -Using the same hand shape for three or more words

  •  5 handshape to sign BIRTH, CHILDREN, GROW-UP

• WHITE WOLF GONE

English Rhythm

• is the repetition of a pattern of sounds in poetry. 

• created by using long and short sounds and stressed and unstressed syllables. There are several different type of units of rhythm in poetry.

• William Blake's "Tyger" Tyger, Tyger, burning bright, In the forest of the night.

• In Macbeth, Shakespeare •   Double, Double, Toil and Trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubbl

ASL Rhythm

• signs are expressed with a combination of movement, pace, pauses or holds. 

• Rhythm can also be done by changing the handshapes or by causing the placements of the hands to begin and end in the same spatial positions